Let’s Go To The Movies

Davin Dillon

2022-04-18

Some Dataset Numbers

The data I was able to collect contains 4,834 movies nominated for an Academy Award since its inception in 1929. Of these 4,834 movies. 1,274 won at least one award. There have been 10,395 total Oscar nominations, and 2,357 total Oscar wins in the dataset. 566 movies have been nominated for Best Picture in its many forms. Out of these, 93 won.1,154 movies have had an actor or actress nominated in either a leading or supporting role.313 movies had at least one winner in an acting category.

Popular Movies

There are a total of 680,347,622 votes in the dataset.5,540 movies have received at least 10,000 votes on imdb. Of these movies, 221 were nominated for Best Picture. 37 won Best Picture. Doing the math, this means that 56.00 Best Picture winners have less than 10,000 votes on imdb according to this data.

Plotting Profit

With Inflation

Highest Percent Profit

Lowest Percent Profit

Who spends more money?

  • The average Oscar winner percent profit is 634.94.
  • The average Oscar loser percent profit is 444.90
  • The average non-nominated percent profit is 248.09.

<span style = ’color: navy;, font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;“> Who makes more money?